Small talk at work: 21 English phrases for the coffee break
All 21 phrases
Saying hello3
How are things6
Keeping it going7
Saying goodbye5
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- Sources
Picked by Talk, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Phrases
- Picked by Talk.
- How Talk picked them
- We drafted 39 phrases for small talk at work (greetings, how-are-yous, keeping a chat going and goodbyes), plus the other ways people say them (contractions, British and American forms). We counted how many of Talk's spoken videos say each one. We kept those heard in at least three lines across two or more videos, with at least one clear moment.
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- Talk shares this list under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Situations and examples
- Written by Talk.
- Dictionary details
- From Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Princeton WordNet, used under the WordNet licence. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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